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This startup is training an AI model on skin that stays alive for a month

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Outer Biosciences has come out of stealth after four years, keeping surgically discarded human skin alive for up to a month and feeding the results into an AI model that predicts useful compounds. It has raised about $23mn and employs 19 people. A company in Massachusetts has spent four years keepi…

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  1. 2026-08-22 11:57 · The Next Web
    This startup is training an AI model on skin that stays alive for a month

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